A heartwarming contemporary women's fiction novel about family, friendship, healing, and finding where you truly belong.
Beth Timson has spent years looking after everyone else. Her children. Her husband. And finally, her beloved mum, as Alzheimer's slowly stole away the woman she once knew. So when grief leaves Beth wondering what comes next, she does something completely unexpected. She packs up her chaotic family, swaps Northern England for a tiny Irish village and moves into the cottage she has dreamed about for years. Buttercup Cottage is meant to be their fresh start. There are chickens, muddy wellies, questionable village gossip, a dangerously welcoming pub and the possibility of finally opening the cosy bookshop and coffee shop Beth has always wanted. For the first time in years, life begins to feel hopeful. Then a stranger walks through Beth's door with a secret that changes everything she thought she knew about her family. As old truths surface and new friendships grow, Beth discovers that starting again does not mean leaving the past behind. And when unimaginable heartbreak threatens to tear her family apart, the people around her prove that home is not always a place. Sometimes, it is the people who refuse to let you fall. Warm, funny and deeply emotional, The Distance Between Our Names is an unforgettable story of family, hidden truths, grief, belonging and the extraordinary ways love carries us home.